GRE Word List
RIDDLE
a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum
The meaning of the word riddle is a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| flutter | to flap the wings rapidly |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| attire | to put garments on : dress |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| rigid | deficient in or devoid of flexibility |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |